Poetry

For tonight's episode of "West Texas Talk," we remember Ken Whitley of Marfa, who died on January 4, 2018. Whitley, also known as "Christopher Columbus,"…

On this edition of West Texas Talk, Natalie Melendez sits down with Lannan Poet in-residence Cedar Sigo. Sigo studied writing and poetics on scholarship…

On this episode of West Texas Talk, Laura Copelin sits down with Joan Naviyuk Kane, the current Lannan Fellow. Kane is a poet from Anchorage Alaska and is…

The annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering happened over the weekend. The two-day event is held every year in Alpine, and we were there recording it. So…

After Mathias Svalina lost a job as a teacher he needed to find a quick way to pay the bills. So he started a business delivering dreams in the middle of…

About an hour east of Dallas, there's a little town called Poetry. Poetry, Texas. It's a teeny little town, but they do have a water tower, and it does…

Hala Alyan is our guest on West Texas Talk. She is a Palestinian American poet and clinical psychologist who is a Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence in…

Eileen Myles is a poet living in New York. She's written 18 books, the lastest being Snowflake/different streets (2012). She received a Warhol/Creative…

Today, we speak to Rodney Jones, a poet-in-residence at the Lannan Foundation. Jones grew up in rural Alabama. He attended the University of Alabama and…

For the past 29 years, cowboy poets have gathered in Alpine on the campus of Sul Ross State University. It’s called the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering and…